songs that make me grateful for cruise control

May 29, 2013

On Monday, I roadtripped from New Mexico back home. It’s about an eight hour haul, excluding a stop at my parent’s, who were puppysitting Lily. Roadtrip, on Memorial Day — the cops were out in force, catching speeders and watching for DUIs. This made me very grateful for my cruise control. Because when certain songs come up on my iPod roadtrip playlist, it’s really hard not to speed.

Here are some of the songs that make me really grateful for cruise control:

“Birdhouse in Your Soul,” They Might Be Giants

“You Can Call Me Al,” Paul Simon

“I’m Alive,” Electric Light Orchestra

“Crush Story,” Too Much Joy

“Life on Mars,” David Bowie (I know this one’s weird, but seriously, when I hear this song I can’t stop thinking of Sam Tyler and I end up crying and I completely forget what my foot on the gas pedal is doing.)

Oh, most definitely “Kickstart My Heart”, but there’s a track on the ‘Cowboy Bebop – The Movie’ soundtrack called “7 minutes”.
The rest of that title should be “7 Minutes to reach warp 5” because that’s how fast you’ll be going.

My list is more like Rock & Roll Racers Soundtrack
“Paranoid” by Black Sabbath
“The Peter Gunn Theme” by Henry Mancini
“Highway Star” by Deep Purple
“Radar Love” by Golden Earring (only in the Mega Drive/Genesis version)
“Born to Be Wild” by Steppenwolf
“Bad to the Bone” by George Thorogood

I have a CD by Krishna Das that has a statement in the liner notes that the artist will not take responsilbility for any speeding tickets that result from playing it in the car. He does long chants that accelerate 🙂